Oddny Ballo Aleksandersen (born 5 February 1942), is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

[2] On the national level, she served briefly as personal secretary (today known as political advisor) in the Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1981.

She was later Minister of Government Administration and Labour from September 1992 to October 1993, in the third cabinet Brundtland.

[1] She was the third woman in a row to hold this position; the first man to be Minister of Government Administration was Nils Olav Totland, who succeeded Aleksandersen in 1993.

She has worked as a school teacher in Sør-Varanger Municipality and Vadsø Municipality from 1968 to 1972 and 1982 to 1984, as a secretary in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1972 to 1979, as a consultant in Finnmark County Municipality from 1980 to 1982 and in the administrative department of the University of Tromsø from 1990 to 2007.